A Feminist Climate Action Reading List...for everyone
Books, podcasts, newsletters, and more on saving the Potomac River and the planet
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LOL to anyone who thought we could solve the climate crisis without a feminist perspective!
But seriously, tackling the biggest emergency of our time (and the biggest threat to the Potomac River and clean water) will take a diverse set of voices of all genders, races, creeds, and experiences. And since we have less than 10 years to get this situation sorted, it’s time we start listening to the experts that have been historically excluded from the conversation.
You don’t have to be an expert to lend your voice to this collective movement for climate action…but it helps if you can speak about it in a fun and engaging way!
Scroll down to see some of our favorite articles, books, podcasts, newsletters, and more by women who are leading by example.
Non-fiction Books
For when you really want to get into it…
This One Wild and Precious Life: A Path Back to Connection in a Fractured World by Sarah Wilson
All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katherine K. Wilkinson
Erosion: Essays of Undoing by Terry Tempest Williams
Under A White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert
No One is too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg
Wilding: Returning Nature to our Farm by Isabella Tree
Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore by Elizabeth Rush
Novels & Poetry
For when you also want to feed your soul…
Trophic Cascade by Camille T. Dungy
After the Flood: A Novel by Kassandra Montag
Her Animals by Emily N. Johnston
The End of the Ocean: A Novel by Maja Lunde
Another Bright Departure by Joan Naviyuk Kane
The Carrying by Ada Limón
Articles & Essays
For when you want to make the most of a little time…
‘Wakanda doesn’t have suburbs’: How Movies like Black Panther Could Help Us Save the Planet
by Kendra Pierre-Louis (Time Magazine)Real Climate Solutions are Feminist by Thelma Young Lutunatabua (350.org)
Black Feminist Ecological Thought: A Manifesto by Dr. Chelsea Mikael Frazier (Atmos Magazine)
Welcome to the Feminist Climate Renaissance by Brianna Baker (Grist)
Mothering in an Age of Extinction by Amy Westervelt (Drilled News)
Podcasts
For when you don’t actually feel like reading…
A Matter of Degrees by Katherine K. Wilkinson and Leah Stokes
How to Save a Planet by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Alex Blumberg
Inherited by Georgia Wright and Julianna Bradley
Email Newsletters
For when you want a little bit of content on a regular basis…
Heated by Emily Atkin
The All We Can Save Project Newsletter by various contributors
Hot Take by Mary Annaïse Helgar and Amy Westervelt